"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

The alarm. Seriously. We have not used an alarm in many, many years because I am too weak for that sound.

Gunshots. Yep. When we lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, someone was shooting in the parking lot near our bedroom window. I never want to hear this again.

A screaming child/baby. This is one that makes you go from zero to 60 in the turn of a sheet!

A coyote yip yipping nearby.

Cats fighting beside the bed. Why? Can't they save the fight for day time? Ugh!

Pounding on the front door. Middle of the night knocking is NOT a good sound.

Thunder and lightning. When the rain comes with the BOLTS of lightning, and the THUNDEROUS claps of thunder your heart nearly leaps from your chest.

I am very thankful for the rain we had last night, but sleep, well it was out of the question. The sky lit up over and over and the thunder sounds were deafening. I am grateful once again to live in the desert southwest where we have very little thunder and lightning.

Monday, July 14, 2014

Often I share that I may not have a million dollar house, but I have million dollar views. I thought that today, I would share a photo montage of my views as the mountains give me a different mural practically every day.

Many times I have to stop and look again

at my mountains as they seem to change daily!

The goats had the same priceless views!!

As well as the sheep, cows, ducks, geese, turkeys, dogs, and cats!

I have seen several fires upon my mountain.

Even through the slats of the pens, the mountains

shine through.

The clouds over the mountains are often breathtaking!

Oh and sunrises~they make waking up early AMAZING!

Once again, at different times, the mountains seem to change!

And I feel transported to Ireland!

Or to the heavens as the clouds are at times lower than the peaks!

A view through the garden.

Sometimes as calm as it looks, it reminds me of a volcano.

No matter what I am doing, I see my mountains.

And they wow me.

A new person moved to the Canyon and he asked us the name of

the mountains and I told him "our last name" mountains.

He laughed and I told him the real name, and he replied that not

for him, he will always refer to them as our last name~mountains!

(as with the blog~our last name will remain unknown in bloggity world)

Thursday, July 10, 2014

then chips, I have a weakness~for Pyrex dishes. I suppose it began when Bill and I married. We received a set of mixing bowls for a wedding present. I was hooked at how durable the bowls were. Over the years I have picked up a dish here, a bowl there, and slowly but surely have accumulated a Pyrex collection.

When Bill and I were on our getaway, we stopped in an antique store and I found a Pyrex bowl that

About Me

I have been married to my best friend for nearly 29 years and we live on a small farm in the middle of the desert.
We have four children (now adults) three daughters-in-law, two grandsons and look forward to many more added to the fold.